# pork
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pɔːk/
* (General American) IPA: /poɹk/
* (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /po(ː)ɹk/
* (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /poək/
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* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k

### Etymology 1

From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”).
Cognate with Old English fearh (“piglet”). Doublet of farrow. Compare also other West Germanic words for pigs: Ferkel, Ferke, and varken.
Used in English since the 14th century, and as a term of abuse since the 17th century.
US politics sense is related to pork barrel. The verb is from the black American form of poke.

#### Noun

pork (countable and uncountable, plural porks)
* (chiefly uncountable) The meat of a pig.
    Synonyms: pigflesh, pigmeat, swineflesh, swinemeat, the other white meat
    The cafeteria serves pork on Tuesdays.
* (US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
* (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
    Synonyms: bacon, pigs, swine; see also Thesaurus:police
    Meronym: porky (“one member of law enforcement, policeman”)

##### Derived terms

* barbecued pork
* barbecue pork
* cut of pork
* Dongpo pork
* double-cooked pork
* flossy pork
* Huizeng pork
* I don't eat pork
* jellied pork
* long pork
* lychee pork
* minced pork
* minced pork rice
* moo shi pork
* mu shu pork
* mu xu pork
* National Pork Board
* organic pork
* partially defatted pork fatty tissue
* Peking pork
* pickled pork
* piece of pork
* pig upon pork
* pork and beans
* pork bacon
* pork ball
* pork-barrel
* pork barrel
* pork-barrelling
* pork barrelling
* pork-based
* pork belly
* pork blood
* pork blood soup
* pork bouillon
* porkbuster
* pork butcher
* pork butt
* pork-cat syndrome
* pork cheek
* pork cheese
* pork chop
* pork chop island
* pork consumption
* pork-containing
* pork cutlet
* pork cycle
* pork dripping
* pork ear
* pork-eater
* pork-eating
* porker
* pork escalope
* pork fat
* pork fillet
* porkfish
* pork floss
* pork goulash
* pork hedgehog
* pork hock
* porking
* pork insulin
* pork jelly
* pork jowl
* pork kebab
* pork kidney
* pork knocker
* pork-knocker
* pork knuckle
* pork liver
* pork loin
* pork mami
* pork meat
* pork meatball
* pork neck
* pork out
* pork pie
* pork pie hat
* pork producer
* pork rib
* pork ribs
* pork rind
* pork roast
* pork roll
* pork schnitzel
* pork scratching
* pork scratchings
* pork shoulder
* pork slab
* Pork Soda
* pork steak
* pork store
* pork strips
* pork sung
* pork sword
* pork tapeworm
* pork tenderloin
* pork tenderloin sandwich
* Pork Tornado
* pork up
* pork Wellington
* porky
* Porky Pig
* pork–cat syndrome
* pulled pork
* red braised pork belly
* roast pork
* salt pork
* Scottish pork taboo
* sea pork
* sliced pork
* smoked pork
* spring of pork
* steam minced pork
* sweet and sour pork
* twice-cooked pork
* yuxiang shredded pork

##### Related terms

* porcine

##### Descendants

* → Japanese: ポーク (pōku)

##### See also

* bacon
* ham
* pig
* porcupine
* swine

#### Verb

pork (third-person singular simple present porks, present participle porking, simple past and past participle porked)
* (transitive, slang, vulgar, usually of a male) To have sex with (someone).
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate with
** 1978, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, Animal House (motion picture), spoken by Boon (Peter Riegert), Universal Pictures:Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!

### Etymology 2

Blend of pin +‎ fork

#### Noun

pork (plural porks)
* (chess) A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.

### References

* ↑ “pork”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* porc, porke

### Etymology

From Old French porc, from Latin porcus. Compare farowen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔrk/, /pɔːrk/

### Noun

pork (plural porkes)
* pork (pig meat)
* swine, pig

#### Descendants

* English: pork
* Scots: pork, porc, porck

### References

* “pork(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.